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August 28, 2005
Food and other disappointments
I'm not a huge fan of cheese but when Adam and I were in Italy, I had a really good dish called cacio e pepe in Rome which is pasta (usually spaghetti or linguine) tossed with cheese and pepper that is intense on the cheese so I've wanted to try the restaurant named after this dish for a while. Adam and I finally went there on Friday--I probably a mistake in not ordering the dish that I went to the restaurant for but it's hard for me to resist a dish with truffles and I ended up ordering a different pasta dish instead. It was ok but overpriced I thought but when I saw strawberry tart with chocolate fondue on the menu, there was no way I could resist ordering this. The "fondue" turned out to be thin lines of decorative chocolate sauce and the tart wasn't even that good.
On Saturday I decided I wanted something light for lunch and I decided steamed chicken dumplings from Sammy's would be perfect. I had always liked their dumplings though it had been a while since I'd eaten there. When the dumplings came out, I was disappointed--instead of the standard dumplings I was used to, I was served these dim-sum like dumplings in translucent wrappers. I thought I'd be able to make up for the disppointment by getting some cream puffs from this place but, unfortunately, their West Village branch hasn't opened yet.
Today, Adam and I finally went to see Broken Flowers. I had looked forward to seeing the movie because it had gotten good reviews, I like Bill Murray's recent melancholy characters, I'm a big fan of Julie Delpy, and I generally like Jim Jarmusch's films but Adam and I were both a little disappointed by this film. It was a little too slow and too loose-endish. Not one of Jarmusch's stronger films in my opinion though I guess it would be tough to top Down by Law (a must for any Roberto Benigni fan).
Posted by Jennifer at August 28, 2005 09:31 PM